We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
